[Starting at 4:20] “And if you think for one second that Indiana Jones 5 (Disney, 6.30) is gonna put Lucasfilm back on top, all I can say is ‘well, bless your heart, you sweet summer child!’ Nobody, and I mean nobody in the entire universe, wants to see a geriatric Indiana Jones get humiliated and replaced by a goofy British comedy actress whose claim to fame [within the realm of popcorn franchises] is voicing an insufferable droid in a failed Star Wars movie.
In my book Phoebe Waller-Bridge‘s claim to fame was (a) creating Fleabag and (b) having helped punch up the screenplay of No Time To Die.
In Indy 5 Waller-Bridge plays Helena Shaw, Indiana Jones’ goddaughter and the reported catalyst of the film, dragging Grandaddy Indy / Uncle Festus into situational difficulties that she ignited or is otherwise responsible for.
Basic CD thesis: Over the last few years the once family-friendly, entertainment-for-entertainment’s-sake Disney has been fucking up franchises and swallowing wokester pills (i.e., vigorous injections of gay and trans-friendly content, attempting to feed young children with white-people-bad content. The resulting lack of popularity among Average Joes has led to Disney share prices dropping almost 50% over the last two years — “from an all-time high of $200 a share in early ’21 to just $110 per share now.” Go woke = go broke.